Search Results: the star seekers by lesser milton

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. High school library copy with library binding. Stamp on title page and bottom pages, pocket removed. Tape residue, inside covers, 3 stars front inside. Text very good.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good+/Good. Paul Calle, Alex Schomburg. 1st edition, 1953. A Good+ copy in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 212 pp., bound in blue cloth with full color illustrated dust jacket, $2.00. Jacket has overall rubbing and chipping. Text is unmarked, binding is solid. Dust jacket is now protected in mylar sleeve. Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser, August 7, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, died February 22, 2008 (aged 79), in Williamsburg, Virginia) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Goya, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Library binding with dust jacket artwork on spine and front boards. Very well read, text good to very good. With stamps and pocket. Boards show wear, corner's bumped.

WiNSTON Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE SECOND PRINTING IN DJ..

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., [1953]. 8vo. xi, [1], 212 pp. Illust. endpapers showing robots, flying saucers and spacesuits, & rockets by Schomburg. Blue publisher’s cloth, yellow lettering (spotting & staining to spine, fore-edges, some shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of generational starship by Paul Calle (slight wear), G-/NF copy. First edition, stated, of this Winston Science Fiction title describing the struggles of a Generation Starship adventure as humans attempt to settle Alpha Centauri planets. Lesser (1928-2008) would change his name to Stephen Marlowe, wrote under several pseudonyms, and also wrote thrillers, mysteries, and literary biographies.

G/G. Jacket in mylar. 1st edition. Browning around hinge area of both pastedowns, spine of jacket sunned, small chip to middle of rear panel

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 212 p. 22 cm. Sound binding in navy cloth-covered boards with yellow, stamped spine titles. Spine slightly cocked. Staining to both boards. Corners lightly worn. Text block edges are tanned. There is a price erasure on rear endpaper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked with light toning. Dustjacket has heavy wear to the spine ends, with shallow chips on either side of the head of the spine. Tiny chips to spine tail and corners of jacket. The spine is faded. Folds have wear including creases and a tiny hole to the spine edge. Jacket is stretched so that title does not line up on the middle of the spine. Rubbed. Price clipped. A title in the Winston Science Fiction series for juvenile readers. Jacket designed by Paul Callé and endpapers designed by Alex Schomburg. .

Philadelpha: The John C. Winston Co., 1953. Hardcover; 212 pages. Dark blue cloth hardcovers with yellow titles on spine. Decent amount of rubbing and wear to covers. B&w graphical endpapers, clean. The pages are yellowed but flat and unmarked. GOOD. Jacket is paper, PC, chipped around edges, wrapped in mylar cover. GOOD.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

E-281: John C. Winston Company. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia PA. 1953. Ix, 212 pgs. Decorated endpapers. First Edition/First Printing. Paul Calle designed DJ has shelf-wear present (spine nds lightly chipped, spine lightly faded and sunned) Bound in blue cloth boards with yellow titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. When man tackles the first really long journey - across twenty-six trillion miles of uncharted space - to the nearest star, it will take him two hundred years to complete the flight. Not until the sixth generation nears maturity will the starship reach its destination. Around this fascinating theme, Milton Lesser has woven a tale of the first starship's final days of flight. He pictures the ship as a hollowed-out asteroid composed of four… Read More

PA: John C. Winston Co, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dustwrapper. Book is rubbed at spine ends and corners, also spine edges, fade marks on front cover at upper side edge and upper corner, cover and foredges lightly soiled. Dustwrapper is rubbed and chipped at spine ends and all edges, cut-out at upper portion of front fold to correspond with fade marks, price clipped, lightly soiled. Jacket Design by Paul Calle, and Endpaper Design by Alex Schomburg.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1953. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Octavo. Virgil Finlay (jacket). Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1953. First Edition [stated], with first-state jacket showing twenty other titles from the series. Jacket illustration by Paul Calle, and the iconic endpaper art is of course by Alex Schomburg. Octavo, 212 pp. Black cloth, yellow spine imprinting, pictorial jacket. A Very Good Plus book showing adhesive traces on two endpapers and a bit of dustiness on page edges, else very sharp. The jacket is price clipped and has one noticeable scratch on the front (see scan), is otherwise bright with less rubbing than usually found; also Very Good plus. If you're here - and you are - you know well the nostalgic (for many of us, anyway) Winston series of juvenile sci-fi novels, a 37-title series issued between 1952 and 1961. The first editions are not common. The Star Seekers is one of the most interesting stories from the series,… Read More

THE STAR SEEKERS, Winston, 1953, first edition, vg+ in vg+/near fine full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light rubbing.

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1953]. First edition. Previous owners name in ink to rear free end paper, a fine copy in a fine price clipped first printing dust jacket (20 titles listed on the rear panel) with some of the rubbing to ink endemic to this jacket, mild fade to the spine panel. Part of an original single owner collection. (27529). Octavo, jacket illustration by Paul Calle, cloth. Civilization has deteriorated and the superstitious sixth generation of people aboard mankind's first starship must take immediate action or the ship, a hollowed out meteorite composed of four concentric circles, is doomed to crash. Part of the popular Winston juvenile series published between 1952-1961, which introduced many young readers to science fiction.